Little Babe Collective

MID SUMMER SALE!! What book or product have you been eyeing lately? Head over to the site to grab it at 30% off!

Social Emotional learning is SO important for our little ones, and one of the strands kids learn about in their first year of Kindergarten.
Books are a great resource when learning about emotions. How they look, feel, and are handled can be a great example to reference when your little babe might be going through one themselves.
What books do you use for social emotional learning? Here are a few of our favourites (all are 30% off right now!)
📚 Ruby Finds a Worry
📚 Ravi’s Roar
📚 Perfectly Norman
📚 The Rabbit Listened

Planting 🪴

Why did we decide to include a planting based activity this season?

Check this out:
✨it builds confidence!
The process of planting, tending & caring for, then watching it bloom provides a sense of personal autonomy & satisfaction! What was once an “adult” activity is now something they are capable of doing!

✨you are planting seeds for STEM thinking
If you have school age children, or have looked into preschools/daycares many people promote “STEM” learning (Science, technology, engineering and math based thinking approach) Growing a plant helps build those natural skills & curiosities while paving the way for this type of thinking and processing!

✨gardens and the act of gardening has known positive effects on mood & well being!
It’s a great activity that promotes focus, stillness and relaxation. It helps to quiet a young mind and bring awareness to the present moments. You are setting a foundation through mindfulness through a simple activity!

Give any children the experience of dabbling a tiny seed into a hole, watering it, protecting it and watching it explode into life and growth—and they might just feel like they have magic powers!

Our collections are paired with a book and an item to enhance early literacy reading comprehension, but that doesn’t mean they ONLY work for that one book.

We love to set up a play & see where it takes our little babes. Here they had the idea to build a town and collected some of the pieces to make it happen. Our last set of blocks became houses, apartments and trees, the stacking house became a garage, a bridge and a house! our peg people were the citizens of the town!

Note that little hand… he was Mr Destruction & really challenged us to rebuild when things didn’t go our way (thanks Rabbit Listened for the perfect little connection)

Did you know it is half way through Ramadan?

When Jenn and I started working together, we worked at a school that has a strong community of students who celebrated Ramadan. Our school offered prayer spaces for the students who needed it, as well as a community space for students fasting during Nutrition Breaks. As educators we don't expect our students to teach us about their traditions and festivals, but instead we do research, actively listen to shared stories from students, and work with our school Equity teams to create environments so students can feel seen and heard.

An easy way to create these connections is through BOOKS!

So swipe for a few great books to add to your collections (picture books to middle grade!) Have another recommendation? Let us know below!

These two monkeys are celebrating their third birthdays this month!

If you saw our newsletter you know we’re having a Birthday sale for this week only!

Save 15% by using code LBCBirthday at checkout.

Ps — L’s favourite collection is the “We All Play”, J loved her new shirt from the “IWD collection” and they both love to read The Rabbit Listened on the regular!